The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[email protected] (George Henke) writes: > The current trend towards CMMI and the Six Sigma standard of quality, 6 > standard deviations (3.4 defects in a million) instead of the typical 3 > standards deviations (1 defect in 370) points to the demand for quality, > excellence, and perfection in everything. Toyota doing Lean manufacturing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing some of this has cross-over with Boyd's OODA-loops ... I had sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop Toyota Production System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System In the early 90s, one of the big-3 had C4 task force that was looking at improving their competitive position ... and invented in some number of technology vendors to participate. They went thru majority of the issues with respect to their current state and foreign competitors. One of the big issues was major foreign competitor had reduced elapsed cycle to produce a (totally new) product (from idea to rolling off the line) from 7-8 years to 2-3 years (and looking at dropping below 2 years). Big part of C4 was leveraging technology as part of drastically reducing elapsed product cycle. I chided some of the mainframe brethern attending the meetings about being there to offer advice on reducing product cycle from 7-8yrs to 2-3yrs (when they were still on long product cycle). Within the domesitic auto industry ... although they could very clearly articulate all the important issues ... the status quo was so entrenched that they found it difficult to change. recent thread in greater ibm blog mentioning Boyd http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#39 Agile Workforce http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/20103.html#43 Boyd's Briefings misc. past posts mentioning Boyd &/or OODA-loops http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
